So young skywalker has been turned by Emperor Jobs to the dark side.. ;-)

...for him to apply his programming skills to commercial products, or to black-hat projects?

Make the guy unemployable, as professional talking head Cluley clearly would prefer, and I've no doubt that rather less ethical people would be more than happy to help him put a crust on his plate.

You choose.

It's not like his "virus" is dangerous or causes any damage whatsoever. Personally I laughed my arse off when I first heard of it. He should get a medal to go with his new pay-check.

Oh and if he upset you by jacking your lamer-phone, get a clue. If you're dumb enough to buy anything Crapple makes then you're already askin' for it.

apple could not afford for this man to serve a day of jail time. Not one minute of one day, and quite likely has him accompanied for a while 24-7.

no they could not. After all, who else will find the hacked Iphones? Its obvious apple cant.

I know 3 guys who were so good at hacking Cisco, they wrote a book... Cisco got so pissed they tried to sue and get em jailed... FAIL! ..
.. after a couple of years Cisco paid them 6 figures to pull the 1st book and write one on Securing CS...

@Thor .. if snApple didnt hold onto their designs like a junkie clutching a fiver on his way to a crack den .. less ppl would be hyped up to make some nice scareware.

If people weren't stupid enough to hack open a controlled piece of software, it wouldn't be an issue!

It would be a mad world if he DIDNT get the job.

White hackers are ITs best friend.